Tous les ebooks de la collection "Key Concepts in Philosophy" - Polity

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Empathy Derek Matravers How can we understand another person's feelings, thoughts, words or behaviour? Through empathy, it is hoped, we might use our imaginations to shift our perspective into another person's, thereby grasping their thoughts and emotions. In this insightful new book, Derek... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2017-02-13 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub 19,10 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Objectivity Guy Axtell What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal ?know-how? or ?objective facts?? Can science claim special authority based on the objectivity of its methods? Are our ethical decisions always better when we strive to be impartial and unbiased? Why should... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2016-09-12 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub 19,10 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Moral Responsibility Matthew Talbert Most people would agree that a small child, or a cognitively impaired adult, is less responsible for their actions, good or bad, than an unimpaired adult. But how do we explain that difference, and how far can anyone be praised or blamed for what they have done? In... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2016-01-21 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub 19,10 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Probability Darrell P. Rowbottom When a doctor tells you there?s a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean? Understanding probability is clearly very important, if we are to make good theoretical... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2015-10-30 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub 19,10 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Persons and Personal Identity Amy Kind As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of entities are we, and what makes each of us the same person today that we were yesterday? Could we survive having all of... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2015-10-02 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub 19,10 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Well-Being Ben Bradley The concept of well-being plays a central role in moral and political theory. Policies and actions are justified or criticized on the grounds that they make people better or worse off. But is there really such a thing as well-being, and if so, what is it? Is it... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2015-08-20 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub 17,93 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Emotion Carolyn Price Emotion is at the centre of our personal and social lives. To love or to hate, to be frightened or grateful is not just a matter of how we feel on the inside: our emotional responses direct our thoughts and actions, unleash our imaginations, and structure our... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2015-06-18 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub 20,26 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Groups as Agents Deborah Perron Tollefsen In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being. We say for example that "Google intends to develop an automated car", "the U.S. Government believes that... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2015-06-03 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub 17,93 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Virtue Heather Battaly What is a virtue, and how are virtues different from vices? Do people with virtues lead better lives than the rest of us? Do they know more? Can we acquire virtues if so, how? In this lively and engaging introduction to this core topic, Heather Battaly argues that... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2015-02-02 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub 20,26 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Truth Chase Wrenn What is truth? Is there anything that all truths have in common that makes them true rather than false? Is truth independent of human thought, or does it depend in some way on what we believe or what we would be justified in believing? In what sense, if any, is it... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2014-12-23 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub 20,26 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Irrationality Lisa Bortolotti We talk about irrationality when behaviour defies explanation or prediction, when decisions are driven by emotions or instinct rather than by reflection, when reasoning fails to conform to basic principles of logic and probability, and when beliefs lack coherence or... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2014-12-01 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub 19,10 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Problem of Evil Daniel Speak The most forceful philosophical objections to belief in God arise from the existence of evil. Bad things happen in the world and it is not clear how this is compatible with the existence of an all-powerful and perfectly loving being. Unsurprisingly then, philosophers... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2014-11-11 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub 19,10 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Consciousness Josh Weisberg Each of us, right now, is having a unique conscious experience. Nothing is more basic to our lives as thinking beings and nothing, it seems, is better known to us. But the ever-expanding reach of natural science suggests that everything in our world is ultimately... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2014-11-07 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub 19,10 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Causation Douglas Kutach In most academic and non-academic circles throughout history, the world and its operation have been viewed in terms of cause and effect. The principles of causation have been applied, fruitfully, across the sciences, law, medicine, and in everyday life, despite the lack... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2014-08-26 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub 19,10 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Disagreement Bryan Frances Regardless of who you are or how you live your life, you disagree with millions of people on an enormous number of topics from politics, religion and morality to sport, culture and art. Unless you are delusional, you are aware that a great many of the people who... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2014-08-25 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub 22,89 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Properties Douglas Edwards The world is populated with many different objects, to which we often attribute properties: we say, for example, that grass is green, that the earth is spherical, that humans are animals, and that murder is wrong. We also take it that these properties are things in... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2014-05-12 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub 20,26 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Free Will Joseph Keim Campbell What is free will? Why is it important? Can the same act be both free and determined? Is free will necessary for moral responsibility? Does anyone have free will, and if not, how is creativity possible and how can anyone be praised or blamed for anything?These are just... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2013-04-26 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub 17,93 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Knowledge Ian Evans , Nicholas D. Smith Introductions to the theory of knowledge are plentiful, but none introduce students to the most recent debates that exercise contemporary philosophers. Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith aim to change that. Their book guides the reader through the standard theories of... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2013-04-25 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub 19,10 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Paradoxes Roy T. Cook Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion. Paradoxes threaten our basic understanding of central concepts such as space, time, motion, infinity, truth,... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2013-04-03 Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub 19,10 € PDF ePub

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